The Rings of Energy concluded its second season on Prime Video a month in the past, and whereas followers have been handled to a lot of acquainted creatures seen in J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings all through the course of its run, there’s one well-known beast that creators J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay say we’d not ever see. First launched in 2022, the fantasy sequence has been an enormous hit to this point, with Amazon MGM Studios’ head Jennifer Salke not too long ago touting the 150 million viewers which can be watching and fascinating with the present. Each seasons presently maintain an 84% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes, and whereas there’s a sure portion of the viewers which have bemoaned the present for being “woke,” the vast majority of followers say that Season 2 was a noticeable enchancment over Season 1.
Payne and McKay have been available to reply questions from viewers throughout a current Reddit Q&A session, and it was then that the topic of dragons got here up. Smaug is probably essentially the most well-known of all of them that we’ve seen to this point on the display screen, however that was in The Hobbit trilogy that first hit theaters in 2012 with An Surprising Journey, and concluded in 2014 with The Battle of the 5 Armies. They’ve but to make an look in The Rings of Energy, and in line with McKay, they received’t ever present up except the second requires them.
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It is extremely unlikely that this Lord of the Rings character will probably be in The Rings of Energy.
“I might say dragons are particular and distinctive in Tolkien. There are some legendary dragons with legendary names. Dragons speak in Tolkien. We would need to have the correct motive to do it and on the proper second. I believe it is fairly onerous to prime Benedict Cumberbatch’s Smaug. And there’s one other fantasy present with a lot of dragons. I believe the reply is perhaps. And if we go there, it’s going to be as a result of there’s a terrific Tolkienian concept and motive to go there that we now have to do.”
There’s Extra Than Simply Smaug in Tolkien’s Writings
Whereas Smaug – who was the final named dragon of Center-earth – is undoubtedly the one followers know greatest due to the films, there have been a lot of different dragons that appeared in Tolkien’s writings that those that haven’t delved into the books won’t be conversant in. Each Glaurung, the Father of Dragons, and Ancalagon the Black appeared in The Silmarillion, whereas Scatha was talked about within the appendices to The Lord of the Rings.
There have been, in fact, different anonymous dragons featured in Tolkien’s work, together with the mechanical war-dragons that have been first featured within the story The Fall of Gondolin. That one was printed in The E book of Misplaced Tales Vol. 2 in 1984, after which later printed as its personal novel in 2018.
With The Rings of Energy set within the Second Age of Center-earth, it is uncertain that Glaurung or Ancalagon the Black would seem, as they have been dragons from the First Age. Scatha may present up sooner or later, contemplating he wasn’t slain till the third age, and little is thought of him earlier than that point, so there’s room for Payne and McKay to work with like they did with a younger Shelob in Season 2. Both manner, it’s good to know they’re treating dragons with the quantity of reverence they deserve, which speaks to their dedication to getting Tolkien’s world excellent. Right here’s hoping they proceed down that path into Season 3, which has but to be formally greenlit, however we do count on phrase of its renewal any day now.
This epic drama is ready 1000’s of years earlier than the occasions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and takes viewers again to an period wherein nice powers have been solid, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to damage, unlikely heroes have been examined, hope hung by the best of threads, and the best villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cowl all of the world in darkness. Starting in a time of relative peace, the sequence follows an ensemble forged of characters, each acquainted and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Center-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that reside on lengthy after they’re gone.
- Launch Date
- September 2, 2022
- Seasons
- 2